The primary goal of digitisation in ITMA is to preserve materials and, where possible, make them accessible to the public. Sound recordings, texts, and still and moving images are all candidates for digitisation, with more vulnerable media given priority.
At ITMA, we keep a close eye on international standards and best practice. We incorporate those standards into the digitisation workflow, using the best equipment available. Digitised items also carry technical and contextual metadata to allow them to be both managed effectively and available to search engines.
Find out more about the current standards employed and the particular decisions made regarding the material for this Newfoundland project by clicking on the tabs below.
TIFF 300 DPI
JPEG 300 DPI
Many of the images featured in A Grand Time were donated as digital copies in a variety of formats and resolutions. These have been included in the exhibition regardless of quality because they are valuable documents of a time and place. Nothing can be done to improve the resolution of an image. All were converted to JPG for website use.
TIFF and/or PDF/A 300 DPI
JPEG 300 DPI
PDF/A
Each page of the original manuscripts and articles were scanned to 300 DPI TIFF and the individual images were combined to create a PDF/A for upload to the website.
BWF WAV
Sample Rate: 96kHz
Bit Depth: 24 bit
MP3
The original reel-to-reel recordings had previously been digitised to CD. These were extracted from the CD and MP3 copies made for the website.
MXF
Codec:
MPEG2
MP4
Codec: MPEG 2
The original video and audio was recorded using ITMA’s own Canon XF 100 High Definition camera. The files were then converted to MP4 for website use.
Irish Traditional Music Archive /
Taisce Cheol Dúchais Éireann
73 Merrion Square
Dublin 2
Ireland
D02 WK75
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